| Ngoma |
| Preface |
| Introduction |
 | 1 Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction |
| The "Grands Rites" Of Kinshasa |
| • | Buttressing The Lineage In Western Bantu Society |
| • | God, Jesus, The Ancestors, And Janet In Luba Divination |
| • | Urban Changes In Cults Of Affliction |
| Ngoma On The Swahili Coast |
| • | A Classic Profile Of Ngoma In Sukumaland, Western Tanzania |
| • | Ngoma Of The Land, Ngoma Of The Coast |
| • | Ngoma Dispensaries, Fee-For-Service Ritual |
| • | Ngoma And Islam |
| • | Ngoma Of Healing, Ngoma Of Entertainment |
| Sangoma: Divining The Stresses Of Rapid Industrialization In North Nguni Society |
| • | A Swazi College For Diviner-Healers |
| • | Pengula: Divination By "Throwing The Bones" |
| • | Ukufemba: Divination By Mediumship |
| • | Mediumistic Trance Versus Mechanistic Technique |
| The Amagqira: Surviving The Townships Of South Africa |
| • | A Case Study In Initiation To Ngoma |
| • | Conclusion |
| 2 Identifying Ngoma Historical and Comparative Perspectives |
| • | The Bantu Conundrum |
| • | The Lexicon Of a Classical Sub-Saharan Therapeutics |
| • | Instruments Of Ritual Healing As A Nonverbal Cognate Set |
| Social And Political Variables Of A Complex Institution |
| • | Cults Of Affliction In Centralized And Segmentary Societies |
| • | Unitary And Diverse Manifestations |
| Scholarly Blinders And The Ontology Of A Unique Institution |
| • | Conclusion |
| 3 Core Features in Ngoma Therapy |
| • | Sickness And Therapeutic Initiation As A Phased Rite Of Passage |
| • | The Diagnosis Of Misfortune |
| • | Nosology And Spirit Fields |
| • | The Course Through The White |
| • | Sacrifice And Exchange |
| The Sufferer Becomes The Healer |
| • | Conclusion |
| 4 Doing Ngoma The Texture of Personal Transformation |
| • | Text And Texture In African Healing |
| • | "Doing Ngoma": The Core Ritual Unit |
| • | Common Songs And Personal Song In Ngoma Narrative Tradition |
| • | The Structure Of Ngoma Therapeutic Communication |
| Of Music and Ritual in Ngoma |
| • | Conclusion |
| 5 How Ngoma Works Of Codes and Consciousness |
| • | Personal Experience And Cultural Reality |
| Spirit Logic And Therapeutic Discourse |
| • | Spirits, A Scholarly Bugaboo? |
| • | Healers' Views Of Ngoma Therapy |
| • | Ngoma as Therapeutic Discourse |
| • | From Spirit To Song-dance: Articulating Metaphors Of Difficult Experience |
| Ngoma And Specialized Knowledge |
| • | Conclusion |
| 6 How Ngoma Works The Social Reproduction of Health |
| • | Health And Health Indicators |
| • | The Social Reproduction of Health |
| Profiles Of Ngoma Social Reproduction |
| • | Reconciling Lineage and Trade in Precolonial Kongo Society |
| • | Saving Lives of Mothers and Infants on the Southern Savanna |
| • | Regional Networks of the Isangoma/ Amagqira of Southern Africa |
| • | Professional and State Control of Ngoma on the Swahili Coast |
| • | Conclusion |
| Conclusion |
| Appendix A Partial Listing of Guthrie's Inventory of Bantu Languages |
| Appendix B Distributions of Terms in Bantu Languages Pertaining to Therapeutic Concepts and Actions |
| Appendix C Instrumentation Accompanying Healing Rituals in Central and Southern Africa |
| • | Equateur |
| • | Eastern Zaire |
| • | Southern Savanna |
| • | Kongo-Atlantic |
| • | East Africa |
| • | Southeast Africa |
| • | Southern Africa |
| Notes |
| • | 1 Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction |
| • | 2 Identifying Ngoma Historical and Comparative Perspectives |
| • | 4 Doing Ngoma The Texture of Personal Transformation |
| • | 5 How Ngoma Works Of Codes and Consciousness |
| • | 6 How Ngoma Works The Social Reproduction of Health |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
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